Talk:Star Control

Original Star Control -- Source?

Hello, I am a software engineer and Star Control 1 aficionado.
I frequently wish for the SC source code so I could make improvements (for the AI, for the map, for the game economics, etc).  Is there any hope whatsoever that Stardock might open-source it some day to help breathe new life into the old game?

UPDATE:  Ah, never mind, I just found this: http://www.star-control.com/faq.php#53 which says "Additional comments by Fred Ford: Unfortunately after six years of further coding and media failure, I no longer have a complete set of source. Also, I'm not very sentimental about old stuff."

I'm thinking now that my best plan for such a thing would be to modify the UQM sources to approximate the SC1 "strategic" game (the spinning vertices interface and strategy AI), and lean on the UQM's existing implementation for as much as possible.